Contained in its hideous visage is the reason why memes are dead. Hear me out. The internet was a very different place in the early days of memes.

The consensus among Gen Z is that memes generally stop being funny once they’re overused, especially in ad campaigns by brands. But even if we see the meme as dead, it doesn’t disappear—it just stops ...

Hence the meme costume. Dressing up like an internet phenomenon has been around for at least a decade, definitely since folks started throwing HallowMeme costume parties in New York City in 2009.

There are dozens more classic, now-dead memes in the r/AskReddit thread. Check it out and remember laughing, raging, and being annoyed online as the world wide web existed five to ten years ago.

The meme index is up by nearly 60% this year, outperforming the s&p 500 by 40 or so percentage points. Returns on individual holdings are more bonkers still, even if some stocks have risen from a ...

The ‘self-drawn memes’ prove that Twitter meme culture is not dead—yet The self-drawn memes serve as a test for how Extremely Online a person is.